Deadpool Goes To The Therapist [fan film]

Did you watch the video yet? No? OK, go watch the video, then read on.

Done? OK, here’s the deal:

Deadpool is not any ordinary Marvel Comics character – besides himself speaking, Deadpool hears two distinct voices in his head. I understand it used to be only one, but there’s certainly two now. Anyway… that’s the joke. He’s not talking to a therapist, he’s talking to himself. Not a great joke, but that’s the concept we came up with and we ran with it.

see, he’s talking to himself.

TECHNICAL NOTES:
This was filmed using a Canon VIXIA HF M300 and edited in Adobe Premiere CS 5.5. I used a 1000 LED light as my key light and a 500 LED light for fill in all of those shots of Deadpool on the couch. I didn’t use any back lighting because I’m a putz – hence the shadow on the wall. In those two shots that have little light, I used work lights that I defused with tissue paper and black paperboard. I did all of the audio overdubs with a shotgun condenser mic plugged into an M-Audio box. We used that same shotgun condenser mic to record the dialogue directly into the camera during shooting, but we still got a ton of noise which I believe was caused by the camera’s power supply – recording just using the camera’s battery pack yielded much better audio. I used Adobe Audition to remove the hiss, and it worked fairly well, but not perfectly. And for some reason, when I uploaded the video to YouTube… I don’t know… the colors lost some of their saturation. The blacks aren’t their blackest, stuff is a little blurry… I’m not sure what happened. I tried a few different exports from Premier, but I couldn’t solve the problem easily… so I gave up.

(If you increase your YouTube HD settings to 1080P, that helps a little.)

This was a fun video for me to make because I was able to try things I’d never done before and I wasn’t the one sweating it out in the costume. For example, in that night shot (which was hell on earth while we were shooting it):

original shot. note the tree near our feet (that you can barely see)

I was able to first cover the tree

tree removed

and then I covered the top of my garage with this building in yet another attempt to convey that we were on top of a building.

as the shot appears in the video

I had to replace the original background behind the building with our background, but that worked out OK. Photoshop is AWESOME!
Anyway, this was a fun project and I learned a ton. We hope you enjoyed it, too!